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Celebrity confessionals replete with stories of loony behavior, backstage debauchery, family trauma and drug and alcohol abuse are all the vogue now -- it might as well be called the Betty Ford Clinic and Famous Writers School. But Patty Duke's contribution to the genre is something special, in part because she speaks with unusual candor, in part because Co-Author Kenneth Turan tells her story with artful artlessness. A child champion on The $64,000 Challenge who confessed at a congressional hearing that the show was rigged, Duke grew to win an Oscar at 16 as Helen Keller...
...Bruce, Janis Joplin, John Belushi . . . In our culture these people are heroes . . . It's the one thing I cling to in here: Wow, I'm hip now, like the dead people." So writes Actress Suzanne Vale, 29, whose diary of her 30 days in a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation clinic forms the strongest part of this feisty, refreshing first novel. Suzanne's journal is counterpoint to the strident monologue of a fellow patient, Alex Daniels, also 29, who bottomed out at a Ramada Inn on a half-ounce of cocaine, six Long Island iced teas, two Smirnoffs, a hamburger, French...
...Borscht Belt: "I'm a flash and the world is my pan." And: "I guess that's how guys are thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic. But not before Fisher, who once expected to be remembered only as Star Wars' Princess Leia, proves that the pen is mightier than the light-saber...
...medical problems of three of the four Justices who usually support their views. Thurgood Marshall, 79, was hospitalized last week for a blood clot in his right foot, and William Brennan, 81, for a prostate examination that found no cancer. Harry Blackmun, 78, will enter the Mayo Clinic next month for treatment of prostate cancer...
...episodes rapidly decrease. Even so, there are no hard and fast rules for treatment. "Sometimes the chemical dependency is paramount, and you can't get to the psychiatric disorder until you come to grips with the addiction," says Dr. Robert Morse, director of addictive- disorders services at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one of the few centers with an established track record. "Sometimes it's just the opposite...